Improvement in paper collars



A UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL J. SHAW, OF MARLBOROUGH, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO HIM- SELF, F.O. KENDALL, AND F. A. MARSHALL, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN PAPER COLLARS.

Specieation forming part of Letters Patent No. 50,663, dated October 24,1865.

To all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL J. SHAW, of Marlborough, in the county ofMiddlesex and State of Massachusetts, have made a new and usefulinvention having reference to Paper Shirt-Collars; and I do herebydeclare the same to be fully described in the following specificationand represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure l denotesa front View, and Fig. 2- a side view of a paper collar made inaccordance with my invention. Fig. 3 is a View ot the collar asstretched out into a plane.

My said invention consists, mainly, in a paper collar made With theimitation of a cravat stamped, painted, printed, or made on it, the samebeing so that the collar, when on the neck of a person, shall not onlyanswer the purpose of a cloth collar, but present the appearance ofhaving a cravat applied to itin the ordinary Way heretofore practiced.

The object of the invention is to obtain a cheap substitute for a clothcollarand a cravat.

In carrying out my said invention I imprint or make on the surface ofthe paper of which a collar may be composed a band or imitation of acravat, such being accompanied or not, as occasion may require, with theaddition ot' a colored or imprinted imitation of a bow, made of paperand forming part of the collar or being attached to it.

In the Figs. l and 2 ofthe drawings, A denotes a paper collar of anordinary kind, b being the part colored in imitation of the cravat,

while c is the part of the paper colored in imitation of a cravat-bow.

It' desirable, the colored part or parts ofthe collar which are inimitation of a cravat may be embossed with any suitable ornamentaldevice or devices.

In Fig. 3 each half H of the bow is exhibited as projecting from thecollar A and fastened with a locking notch or slit s or s,where by thetwo parts of the bow may be interlocked and the collar be fastenedtogether in front. The front button-hole of the collar is represented att.

I do not claim constructing a paper collar.

With the imitation of a cravat-bow only, in the manner as exhibited inthe United States Patent No. 45,681, granted December 27, 1864, as myinvention covers the imitation ot the cravat to extend around or acrossthe entire collar, lengthwise of it, in manner substantially ashereinbefore described and represented.

I claim- As an improved manufacture, a paper collar made with theimitation of a cravat printed or formed on it, substantially asspecified, or with the same and the two parts of the bow thereofprojecting from the opposite ends of the collar, and provided with thelocking-slits, as set forth.

SAMUEL J. SHAW.

Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, F. P. HALE, J r.

